Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?

If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.

No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

I'm a person that can get along with people. I like people who believe passionately in things even if they're not the things I agree with.

Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

I get to meet a lot of people, and I really like people.

I'm good at picking friends.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

People come to the Fountain Theatre because they've got hearts that are working and they've got heads that are working. They use the Fountain Theatre because it puts them in touch with the world that they're living in.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.